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If you have ever wanted to play a human who turns into a werebear, as they are called in D&D, or a skin-walker as they are called in Native American culture? Then Lord of the Rings Online has a new character class for you: the Beorning.

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It’s that time of year again, when MMO developers release spooktacular updates filled with ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, werewolves and the like. Because of this, we thought we’d provide players with a small, non-comprehensive update on the various festivities.

In SuperData’s latest digital games report, the firm takes a look at the subscription-based MMO market and unsurprisingly, World of Warcraft remains the top revenue earner despite the sector’s loss of subscription-based players.

Plenty of MMOs are hosting holiday events or other sorts of festivities between now and the new year, so instead of creating a news post for each one, I thought I would round a few up for you instead. Get the list full of acronyms below.

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm’s Deep goes live today after storms on Sunday night knocked out the power and caused issues into Monday and Tuesday, delaying the expansion’s release. While you wait on the download to finish you should have a look at the patch notes which will also detail the myriad of class […]

Following some down time this weekend, the Helm’s Deep expansion for Lord of the Rings has been delayed. The free-to-play MMO went down due to a power outage at its data centre, according to a Facebook post, and as a result Helm’s Deep will be released on November 20, a few days late. Helm’s Deep […]

Warner has added F.E.A.R., Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, Guardians of Middle Earth and its DLC, a Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack, and the Gotham City Impostors: Professional Kit to its Humble WB Games Bundle. You will get all these games, plus the previously announced titles if you pay over the current […]

The next expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, Helm’s Deep, will launch in November, Turbine and Warner have announced. It will contain a new level cap of 95 along with some changes to skill trees and various purchase options are available for it.

Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand is out next week, and to get you ready to venture into the Wildermore, Turbine has released a set of shots and a video showing off the Eastern Rohan.

Lord of the Rings Online is turning six, and to celebrate, it will be handing out goodies to all of its players. Said goodies include classic festival events, fireworks, the chance to earn anniversary tokens, and other fine fare. The Anniversary Festival takes place April 16-30, and once again, some of the gifts handed out […]

The LOTRO servers are back online after a longer than planned scheduled maintenance. To compensate players for the downtime, Turbine is giving all Premium and VIP players who have logged into their account in last 30 Days – as of 6:00am EST on February 14 – 250 Turbine points. All VIP players who have logged […]

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If you have ever wanted to play a human who turns into a werebear, as they are called in D&D, or a skin-walker as they are called in Native American culture? Then Lord of the Rings Online has a new character class for you: the Beorning.

It’s that time of year again, when MMO developers release spooktacular updates filled with ghosts, ghouls, pumpkins, werewolves and the like. Because of this, we thought we’d provide players with a small, non-comprehensive update on the various festivities.

In SuperData’s latest digital games report, the firm takes a look at the subscription-based MMO market and unsurprisingly, World of Warcraft remains the top revenue earner despite the sector’s loss of subscription-based players.

Plenty of MMOs are hosting holiday events or other sorts of festivities between now and the new year, so instead of creating a news post for each one, I thought I would round a few up for you instead. Get the list full of acronyms below.

Lord of the Rings Online: Helm’s Deep goes live today after storms on Sunday night knocked out the power and caused issues into Monday and Tuesday, delaying the expansion’s release. While you wait on the download to finish you should have a look at the patch notes which will also detail the myriad of class […]

Following some down time this weekend, the Helm’s Deep expansion for Lord of the Rings has been delayed. The free-to-play MMO went down due to a power outage at its data centre, according to a Facebook post, and as a result Helm’s Deep will be released on November 20, a few days late. Helm’s Deep […]

Warner has added F.E.A.R., Mortal Kombat Arcade Kollection, Guardians of Middle Earth and its DLC, a Lord of the Rings Online: Steely Dawn Starter Pack, and the Gotham City Impostors: Professional Kit to its Humble WB Games Bundle. You will get all these games, plus the previously announced titles if you pay over the current […]

The next expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, Helm’s Deep, will launch in November, Turbine and Warner have announced. It will contain a new level cap of 95 along with some changes to skill trees and various purchase options are available for it.

Lord of the Rings Online’s Update 11: Treachery of the White Hand is out next week, and to get you ready to venture into the Wildermore, Turbine has released a set of shots and a video showing off the Eastern Rohan.

Lord of the Rings Online is turning six, and to celebrate, it will be handing out goodies to all of its players. Said goodies include classic festival events, fireworks, the chance to earn anniversary tokens, and other fine fare. The Anniversary Festival takes place April 16-30, and once again, some of the gifts handed out […]

The LOTRO servers are back online after a longer than planned scheduled maintenance. To compensate players for the downtime, Turbine is giving all Premium and VIP players who have logged into their account in last 30 Days – as of 6:00am EST on February 14 – 250 Turbine points. All VIP players who have logged […]

Turbine is being sued by Ontario-based web services company Treehouse for patent infringement. The firm claims the Warner-owned studio uses its software for collecting real-time data on user choices in both D&D Online and Lord of the Rings Online.

Riders of Rohan, the expansion for Lord of the Rings Online is out next week, and to get you a bit excited over it, a new developer diary focusing on the sountrack is available below. The music in the MMO has always been one of its strong points, and it sounds as through RoR won’t […]

Lord of the Rings Online has a new developer diary out for Riders of Rohan, which takes a look at the Epic Storyline. There’s information in there on how the team at Turbine brought some of the locations in the book to life, and how deep down, poor Boromir was still a good guy – […]

Lord of the Rings Online’s Treasure Hunt is back, so if you missed out on hugging all the Cave-claws needed on your list, you’re in luck. Players will also be digging for all sorts of cosmetics, a mount, and emotes. New rewards are available this time out as well, as noted in the latest release […]

Lord of the Rings Online beta testers have revealed that Riders of Rohan, the free-to-play MMORPG’s next major expansion, will launch will a full native OS-X client. Although no official announcement has been made, the lifting of the NDA on the expansion’s beta testing allowed forumites to get the news out. Mac users had previously […]

Riders of Rohan, the upcoming expansion for The Lord of the Rings Online, has been delayed into October according to an announcement from Turbine. However, there’s a silver lining to it, as you’ll see below.